Both Uses
refuge
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Prisoner B-3087
(Edited)
- The tight little crawl space under the floorboards suddenly felt like a coffin, like I was already dead and buried. My refuge from the nightmare of Plaszow was now a trap.
p. 92.3 *refuge = safe shelter
- Sleep was my only refuge from the horror, the thirst, and the starvation, so I retreated there, dozing on again and off again as the train shuddered and creaked on its way to a new camp.
p. 212.8refuge = comfort
Definitions:
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(1)
(refuge) something giving protection or comfort -- especially a safe place
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)